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Nat wrote on 8/31/2007, 8:26 AM
I doubt you will get an answer as the testers would break their NDA...
Spot|DSE wrote on 8/31/2007, 9:07 AM
After editing roughly 150 hours of competed output from Vegas 8 with HDV, XDCAM, HDCAM, and other various sources, I've yet to see the two frame issue, or crashes from corrupt HDV files.
Having said this, I've never seen the two frame issue anyway, and I've come to believe it's a hardware-related problem.
The only corrupt files I've seen from HDV crashing Vegas were some early files from the DR60 HDD unit. I've not seen that behavior in Vegas 8 late builds either.
We've completed several full length projects totaling around 40 hours of finished work, replicated and delivered. Short projects, I've completed roughly 400 5-9 minute projects, all delivered. Edited with a couple different laptops and several desktop systems.
Rock solid performance, no black frames, no crashes.
mbryant wrote on 8/31/2007, 9:13 AM
The black frame problem may be hardware related, but an awful lot of us have been seeing it (with Vegas 7). And I've tried it on different hardware and still see it.
Mark
Spot|DSE wrote on 8/31/2007, 9:23 AM
The point being, if the problem can't be consistently repro'd, then it cannot be fixed. I'm not denying the problem exists for some users. I'm saying I've not seen it, ever. But I have read several posts from folks who have experienced it. I've read an equal number of posts from folks saying they haven't seen it.
For this reason, I believe it's hardware-related. It may be recompression and hardware combined, which is likely gone given the no-recompression for long-GOP sequences in Vegas 8.